In a world where pollution caused by textiles is a major threat, a brand specialising in eco-friendly fabrics claims it can be a better option for the environment.
A newly-established Czech firm Bohempia, the brainchild of textile machinery expert Tomáš Rohal aims to bring hemp back into the Czech textile business. Rohal has decided to set up an entirely different business, environmentally friendly with a stamp of its own that could compete with cheap textile imports from the East because it offered added value. Hemp would be a secret to success.
All of Bohempia’s products are made of hemp - T-shirts, socks, gloves, towels and even a hand-made line of hemp sneakers and is currently aiming to expand its line to hemp jeans.
Re:newcell has developed a unique method able of regenerating textile fibres. The process was developed at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and allows an environmental friendly and economical production of new textiles from used fibres. The company is now scaling up its operations from a scientific to an industrial scale.
As the demand for textiles has experienced a strong growth during the last decade and the world wide annual consumption has now reached approximately 73 million tons with an expected future growth rate of 3% per year.
